Jamaican Bobsled Teams Head To The Olympics For First Time In 24 Years

Jamaica qualified a team for the four-man bobsled event for the first time since the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics in Japan.

Jamaica's four-man bobsled team will be competing in this year's Winter Olympics for the first time in 24 years.

Like the country's 1988 team that inspired the film "Cool Runnings," this team had to overcome extraordinary odds to make it to the Games during the pandemic. It's forced them to get creative in their approach to training.

"I had to create a home gym in my garden," bobsled pilot Shanwayne Stephens said. "Pushing a car up and down the street to get a sort of distance training done."